The entry of the American Navy into the Pacific Ocean under the guise of military exercises has once again strained the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which had just resolved the issue of the Copperfish rebellion. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The USS Seagull, a communications and reconnaissance ship that was on guard on the periphery, was heading at high speed in the direction of the U.S. Navy fleet.

The Seagull was ordered to reconnoiter the intention of the Eastern Fleet of the US Navy, so naturally it was going to say hello to the US Navy and set up information.

It's just that the Seagull, which came at high speed, scared the Eastern Fleet of the American Navy a big surprise.

At this time, more than 30 warships of the Eastern Fleet of the American Navy unexpectedly sounded the battle alarm in unison, the shells were loaded, and the main guns were aimed at the approaching Seagull.

"Bastard! A thousand-ton communication ship scared you like this? ”

On the bridge of the flagship battleship Indiana, Admiral Leonard Wood, commander of the Eastern Fleet of the American Navy, was suddenly furious, and his beard was so angry that he turned up.

It's really embarrassing that a communications ship of the Imperial Chinese Navy, whose firepower is almost negligible, can frighten the entire Eastern Fleet of the American Navy into loading their shells and nervously want to fire!

"Your Excellency General, they are just taking precautions, not being afraid!"

Fleet Staff Officer Henry Cabot hurriedly explained, though he also knew that this explanation was difficult for Wood to believe.

Wood glared at Capote, he hated people who covered up the truth the most, he liked to be straight, and even if he was afraid, he should admit it openly and not make excuses.

However, Wood's mind changed quickly, and he suddenly felt that this might not be a bad thing, and it would be better to scare and frighten the arrogant Imperial Chinese Navy.

At the same time, on the USS Seagull communication ship, Commander Lin Zhiguo looked at the high alert situation of the ships of the American Navy, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly, full of sneers.

"Really, such a big America, the navy doesn't even have a radio, and the captain has to come over to inquire in person!"

An officer couldn't help but complain, but the meaning of his words was full of contempt for the United States, and as a soldier of the Chinese Empire, he felt extremely happy and glorious.

"Alright, don't be verbose, we're here to find out the information! Prepare the megaphone! ”

"Yes!"

The signal corps turned on the external loudspeaker, turned it up to maximum volume, and then tested it, and after his speech was clear, he began to shout to the American Navy.

"This is the Chinese Imperial Navy's communication ship Seagull, you have entered the sphere of influence in the traditional waters of the Chinese Empire, please immediately identify yourself and intent!"

"This is the Chinese Imperial Navy's communication ship Seagull, you have entered the sphere of influence in the traditional waters of the Chinese Empire, please immediately identify yourself and intent!"

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The announcement was made three times in a row, and it was clearly heard within a radius of dozens of nautical miles.

The officers and men of the ships of the Eastern Fleet of the American Navy naturally heard clearly, because the Chinese Empire is a global superpower, Chinese has become the international common language, replacing English, and becoming the most widely spoken and widely used international language in the world, and the examinations of colleges and universities and primary and secondary schools in various countries have set the Chinese level 4 and 6 examinations as a compulsory content for the main course of further education, and the military of various countries is equipped with a large number of foreign language graduates of Chinese level 8 and 10 in order to communicate with the Chinese imperial military at any time. Because the Imperial Chinese Navy has grown into a global navy, there are warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy everywhere under the banner of "freedom of navigation" in the coastal waters of various countries.

Although the U.S. Navy regarded the Imperial Chinese Navy as its greatest enemy, it could only endure when its strength was inferior, so all U.S. ships had to be equipped with officers who could speak Chinese.

In fact, most of the American military can understand Chinese, after all, the honeymoon period between China and the United States lasted for ten years, when the Chinese Empire provided large-scale assistance to the United States, and most of the officers and soldiers in the active duty of the American military have almost received training from the Chinese Imperial instructors, and even many of them speak Chinese more fluently than American English.

There is no need for an interpreter, the commander of the Eastern Fleet, Admiral Wood, himself understands.

His face suddenly turned ugly, and he said angrily: "Has this Pacific Ocean become the inner lake of your Chinese Imperial Country?" Even asked us to disclose our identity and purpose! Outrageous! ”

The adjutant smiled bitterly: "General, don't you know that the arrogance of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire is the same as when the Royal Navy of the British Empire dominated the world!" ”

"When will our American Navy be able to dominate the world!"

Wood sighed, turned his head and ordered: "Raise the flag, tell them that the Pacific Ocean is not their home, we are here for routine military exercises, not against any country, tell them not to bother us!" ”

The herald immediately relayed Wood's order to the warship Seagull on the opposite side through the flag.

One of the two sides shouted directly with a loudspeaker, and the other could only reply with a flag.

The gap is extremely obvious, and the officers and men of all ships of the US Navy are full of envy, jealousy, and hatred.

"When will our warships be equipped with a big horn like the Chinese Imperial Navy, and when the time comes, I will also take the big horn and shout directly!"

Wood smiled bitterly, with the same look of envy and hatred.

The adjutant sighed: "This is the gap between science and technology, economy and industry!" In the past ten years, I have already felt that under the dictatorship of President Grant, the United States has led the whole of Europe in the rapid growth and development of economy, industry and science and technology, but unfortunately compared with the Chinese Empire, we still have a huge gap! ”

Wood couldn't deny this, but he was more concerned with military issues.

"Did you find it, our reconnaissance ships didn't find the warships of the Chinese Empire, and they didn't even know where their main fleet was, but the other party directly sent a communication ship to ask us, what does this mean?"

The adjutant was reminded and immediately discovered the problem.

"It shows that the Imperial Chinese Navy has the equipment and technology to be the first to discover our fleet!"

Wood nodded and said, "That's right, that's what I'm worried about!" If the war started just now, our fleet has not yet discovered the Chinese Imperial Fleet, but the other side discovered our position first, and we have lost the first hand in the fight, and we have already been passive in the case of equal equipment and combat power, not to mention that the equipment and combat power of our navy are not as good as the Chinese Imperial Navy at all, and the possibility of failure in the fight is extremely high! ”

The adjutant sighed, "How did they discover our fleet in the first place?" Submarines are unlikely, we also sent a pilot reconnaissance ship on the periphery, on which we installed a sonar system of our own development, but nothing was found! And on the sea, there is no reason why they see us, and we can't see them! ”

Wood suddenly pointed to the sky and said, "Did you notice a small black dot hovering in the sky?" ”

The adjutant followed Wood's finger and saw a small black dot hovering over their fleet, with a faint buzzing sound.

He hurriedly took out his binoculars, and sure enough, he found a problem.

"That's not a seabird! Seems to be ......"

"Airplane!"

Wood said with a heavy expression.

"Airplanes?"

The adjutant was full of surprise, he had also heard about the plane, developed by the Wright brothers, but the next day he was slapped in the face by the Chinese Imperial Chi Guoguo, so he was not interested in inquiring about the plane.

Wood said, "It's a high-altitude reconnaissance!" Saw our fleet! ”

Only then did the adjutant realize that he had never made an airplane and did not know what it was like to see below in the sky, so he did not think of it at the first time.

However, Wood has never been on a plane, but his wisdom is very high, he knows that when he sees the world from the mountain peak, the world will be bigger and clearer, and then the sky that is a hundred times higher than the mountain peak must see wider and clearer.

"If this is an airplane, then the plane of the Chinese Empire will fly too far! It's at least a thousand kilometers away from Ezo Aoyi! Could it be that the planes of the Chinese Empire were already so advanced? It's horrible! ”

Wood fell into deep thought, if it was in a state of war, the American Navy would be too passive, because no matter where it was, the Imperial Chinese Navy would first discover the location of the American Navy, so that it was possible to make deployments or ambush sneak attacks, which was a huge threat to the American Navy.

As a brilliant naval fleet commander, General Wood decided to report to the president as soon as he returned, and the U.S. Navy must also have aircraft for high-altitude reconnaissance.

However, at the moment, Wood was very entangled, he was ordered to come to pick up Kim Chengwu and the defected Copper Fish submarine, but unfortunately before he could detect the location of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, he was discovered by the other party in advance, which made Wood have no confidence.

Because if it was not discovered by the Imperial Chinese Navy, then when Wood discovered the location of the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy for the first time, he would suddenly rush over and take the opportunity to pick up Kim Sung-go and the Copperfish submarine and escape.

But now Wood did not discover the location of the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, but exposed himself, which indicates that the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy will definitely be ready to intercept the American Navy in advance if necessary to prevent the American Navy from receiving the Copperfish submarine.

And if Wood wants to break through, he will inevitably be fiercely attacked by the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and war is about to break out.

It's not something Wood can do, but unfortunately Wood doesn't have a radio yet, so he can't immediately contact the White House, so it's very painful right now, and he doesn't know what to decide.

At this time, the dialogue between the two sides has ended.

However, the communications ship Seagull of the Imperial Chinese Navy had no intention of leaving, but was circling around the American Navy, in fact, for surveillance.

The officers and men of the American Navy were very angry about this, but unfortunately Admiral Wood did not speak, so they could only endure it.

In the conversation just now, the Chinese Empire has already given a serious warning to the US Navy, claiming that the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy is conducting large-scale military exercises in the nearby waters, and that ships of any country are prohibited from entering the area within a radius of 300 nautical miles.

This is a threat from Chiguoguo, and General Wood is also very annoyed, but he has lost the opportunity to take the lead, and at this time, there is only a dead end to fight with the Chinese Empire.

As a result, Wood eventually gave up on the task of taking over the Copperfish.

"General, let's go back empty-handed like this, it's hard to explain it to the White House!"

The adjutant said worriedly, because the White House attached great importance to this matter, Roosevelt personally hung up the phone to General Wood and gave the order.

Wood smiled bitterly: "Do you think the Copperfish can escape with the aggressiveness of more than a hundred Imperial Chinese Navy warships?" Obviously, the Copperfish had already been sunk before we arrived, and that's all we had to say! ”

The adjutant was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly, this General Wood is also a smart man.

Wood kept staring at the Seagull in the distance and said, "Did you find it, the Seagull never left us!" ”

The adjutant said, "It's spying on us!" But shouldn't the Seagull immediately go back and report to their fleet about our situation? ”

Wood laughed: "People have already reported it, don't you see that there are two huge antennas next to their main mast?" They have radios, and they don't need to report the situation at all! ”

The adjutant exclaimed: "What envy! With this radio system, it's really convenient! If only we had a radio too! ”

Then, the adjutant was puzzled: "However, how do I think that the other party is circling around our fleet, it seems that it is not as simple as surveillance!" ”

Wood laughed, "You can see it too!" That's right, they should also be secretly scouting the hydroacoustic data of our ships! ”

As he spoke, Wood pointed to the stern of the Seagull dragging a long rope at the end of which was a floating balloon-like object.

"See! If I'm not mistaken, what the Seagull is dragging behind is a device that can detect the sound of the propellers of our ships turning! ”

The adjutant was surprised: "Is it sonar?" ”

Wood shook his head, he didn't know this, he could only guess that it was scouting the American Navy, but he didn't know what it was.

"Let's go back now! Stay here a little longer, and our battleships will be a little more dangerous! ”

Wood ordered that the Eastern Fleet of the American Navy returned in vain and demoralized.

The Seagull followed all the way, monitoring and collecting sonar data from various ships of the American Navy.

That's right, the object behind the Seagull is the towed sonar, which has no dead angles in all directions, not only collecting the propeller sound data of the surface warships of the American Navy, but also collecting the submarine data of the American Navy under the surface of the sea.

Several of these previously undiscovered sonar data excited the captain of the Seagull, Lin Zhiguo, who knew that he had discovered a new submarine from the American Navy.

This is a great credit, and if you go back and report the data, the reward will be quite generous.

At the same time, in the sky, a seaplane of the Imperial Chinese Navy also followed the Eastern Fleet of the American Navy.

Previously, it was this seaplane that discovered the movements of the American Navy and alerted the Pacific Fleet, and after Li Weijun received the report, he sent the Seagull to inquire about the intelligence and at the same time retreated the American Navy.

Since the last time Lin Jiyun followed Li Weiguo to visit Area 51 of the secret base, he saw the F4 aircraft at that time, and after hearing Li Weiguo say that the plane would replace the airship in the future, Lin Jiyun asked the navy how to equip the aircraft.

Zhang Xiaoliu, the commander of the army at that time, immediately sarcastically mocked Lin Jiyun, saying that there was no airstrip on the navy warship, so it was impossible to equip aircraft, and the army could build airport runways everywhere, so angry that Lin Jiyun wanted to fight with Zhang Xiaoliu.

But soon Li Weiguo told Lin Jiyun that the navy could also have aircraft, but it had to be modified.

On the sea, ordinary planes naturally can't take off, but seaplanes can.

Seaplanes are also very simple, and only need to design the aircraft with waterproof design and buoyancy to achieve it.

The landing gear of the aircraft was changed from wheels to pontoons, and the lower part of the aircraft was changed to a ship-shaped structure to ensure that the aircraft would not sink into the water, and then replaced with a high-power engine, so that it could take off on the sea surface.

Within a few years, the Navy was equipped with more than 30 seaplanes, codenamed F15 Osprey, which were used as the Navy's water reconnaissance aircraft.

With the F15 Osprey seaplane, the Navy rejoiced and quickly eliminated the airship. Because the airship is too slow, and the target is too large, it is easy to be detected and attacked. Seaplanes, on the other hand, have small targets, high speeds, and lower costs than airships, quickly became the new darlings of the Navy. (To be continued.) )